How To Use Dram In A Sentence

For centuries, scholars have squabbled over the design of the ship, which was crucial to defeating the Persians in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., part of a wider war that included the fight at Thermopylae dramatized in the film "300. Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship
Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
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After a brief excursion into drama, he concentrated on his main interest, which was poetry.
Sure, a number of trees remain, but the emphasis is back on the bunkering and the dramatic contours of its fairways and greens.

At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards. The Sun
The study predicted that, by 2022, the country would still require $7.2 billion in foreign aid a year—and that assumes an upsurge of so-far inexistent mining-industry revenue and no dramatic deterioration of security. Afghanistan Seeks Enduring Support
When combined with combinatorial chemistry methods, scientists can dramatically increase their chances for a hit. The Scientist
But true-life tales of memory loss don't offer just drama - they also shed light on the mysteries of identity and personality.
The rival TV companies are in a race to bring out the first film drama of his life.
This part of the film develops slowly, and is predominantly a straight drama.
Computers have brought dramatic changes to the workplace.
One sheriff admitted handing out 6000 certificates, for which he was either paid a shilling or given a dram of whisky.
The result is a species of amphitheatric arena, in which any of the dramatic exhibitions, that are so pleasing to this spectacle-loving nation, may be enacted. Recollections of Europe
Beddoes as a writer of brief lyric poems, songs exhumed from the bodies of his dramas, and for the bizarre, sprawling Death's Jest Book. Introduction
Its drama is anaemic, devoid of blood, fear and the electricity of repressed desire. Times, Sunday Times
Nor does either of these dramas, though the earlier depicts a corrupt civilisation, include even among the minor characters anyone who can be called villainous or horrible. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
After lying on the floor in a fit of dramatics I realized what I had thought - pinky toe.
Some areas are left uncarved and unpolished, giving a dramatic sense of the raw material.
The closing date for drama is Saturday, February 14 and the dance competitions are open for entry on the day.
Among the amino acids of the peptide, the most dramatic change was the Phe residue.
The dramatic spirit of the Italian race seems to communicate itself to the puppets, and they perform their parts with a fidelity to theatrical unnaturalness which is wonderful. Venetian Life
He is planning to dramatize the novel.
Raving, starving herself, addicted to Seconal and Dexedrine, Tippy makes a dramatic transformation from beautiful to mean.
The announcement had a dramatic effect on house prices.
It is the worst return since 2002 and follows a dramatic slide in global crude oil prices. The Sun
Instead of a crime-does-not-pay melodrama, the play became an acute study of marital and psychological disintegration
The deal frenzy is being driven by a dramatic slide in crop prices in recent years. Times, Sunday Times
The first is a long, sleeveless silk dress, which has a looser cut that is "beachy, floaty and has movement" but which also has a slight air of "drama" due to its elegant, floor-dusting hemline. Packing Just Enough for a Weekend at the Beach
I gave my ideas on "playwriting" again at Philadelphia, and was told just before I began that there were several dramatists in the room, including the author of Madame Butterfly. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
Bringing modern styles to Chinese drama, they are cultivating their own fans.
At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
The concerto is mostly lightweight with tuttis the more dramatic when they appear.
Possibly, this sympathy could appear somewhat self-indulgent, or over-dramatic, if not actually absurdly histrionic.
They are sensitive to the sense of struggle and resignation in this dramatic movement and their rubato, though fluid, never damages the integrity of the underlying pulse.
Ah, se, Diego, I work in telly and agree that tv can do drama very well. Attention TV Professionals - :: gia’s blog ::
Her poetic styles vary from haiku to streetwise dramatic monologue, using the conventions of ‘standard’ English, as well as the defiance of Ebonics.
I don't usually watch this soap but on Monday the characters very neatly recapped the last two years of their lives and allowed me to enjoy the high drama without having invested anything at all.
THE international trade in Atlantic blue fin tuna could be banned in a dramatic move to save the fish from extinction. The Sun
They were primarily portraitists, but Thomas is now chiefly remembered for his dramatic Boadicea monument at Westminster Bridge, London, showing the fearsome warrior queen in her chariot.
The orchestral arrangements added fresh layers of drama and grandeur to her already baroque style. Times, Sunday Times
A newly built road bisects the site, dramatically improving access to the M8 and M74.
Surprisingly, Albee points to the new-play development programs found in theatres across North America (involving dramaturges, readings, workshops) as a source of the blandness of so much of the drama of the past 20 years.
Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
But when it's the sole story-telling medium, as here, I also think it has a slight distancing effect on the reader, robbing the action of some immediacy and urgency, which for modern sensibilities is perhaps not ideal when dealing with such dramatic events. Brian Ruckley - News & Views
Opera is music, drama, literature, dance, theater and art as a comprehensive integration of art, usually by the Aria, Recitative, ensemble, chorus, Overture, Intermezzo , dances and other components.
The one dramatic moment in the film, when Wayne tries to escape from his captors, is a let-down, and it doesn't last nearly as long as one would hope.
It was at one of those catatonic evenings when a dramatic turnaround was in the offing.
There is a dramatic fight scene between the two brothers.
However, the reps go up dramatically for endurance-oriented muscles such as calves and abs.
Earlier, in a dramatic outburst, he claimed he was not getting a fair hearing after being refused permission to call a witness.
The emotionally devastating effects of non-accidental injury, especially to children, has been receiving dramatic mass media coverage recently.
Drugs found in Haim's system included the cough-suppressant dextromethorphan; the antihistamine diphenhydramine; carisoprodol, a prescription muscle relaxant; the tranquilizers diazepam and meprobamate, which are found in Valium and other medications; and the antidepressants fluoxetine and olanzapine. Corey Haim Cause Of Death: Pneumonia Complications, NOT Drugs
Some authors aim at a narrative of drama, skipping the plateaux of family life or inner thoughts and move through a series of peaks of achievement.
Practically all moralizing is absent from Romantic drama.
Too frequently the stories seem to settle for, at worst, an indulgence in superficial whimsy, at best, a cultivation of the bizarre in situation and event that, at least as I read them, can't bear the weight they're asked to bear when left to provide the primary source of dramatic interest. Genre Fiction
And after that, the only other clear thing is the after party, which got way dramatique. Memes Upon Memes
Disabled and able-bodied pupils got together for a dance and drama day.
Sometimes, letting go of psychodrama is letting go of your need to be right. Gamemastering Is An Art, Part VII: Catching Up
Byzance ne s'en remettra jamais complètement et cet évènement dramatique marqua la vraie rupture entre catholiques latins et orthodoxes grecs, beaucoup plus que le schisme de 1054 ! Archive 2007-03-01
The chief appeared with a dramatic parting of tent-flaps.
Like "just A moment," the album sees the act expanding the posthardcore sounds that dominated their early releases. "shandy" starts as an experimental pop song filled with dizzying distorted noises and then morphs into a dramatic rocker. "this is is this?" is the disc's most dynamic composition. Japan News latest RSS headlines - The Japan News.Net
These medicines dramatically help decrease hyperactivity and impulsivity, and increase attention for many children.
Loach's social-realist drama, written by his longtime collaborator Paul Laverty, is a distinctive, piercingly serious vision.
An unclassifiable mixture of animation, drama, love story, coming-of-age-tale-slash-concert movie, Hedwig is adapted from Mitchell's off-Broadway hit of the same name.
We usually prefer gradual and mild change to sudden and dramatic change.
While demonology may be the most dramatic, mediumship is also a form of necromancy, as is divination, which employs the use of spirit guides.
He seems to be an actor perfectly suited to kitchen sink dramas in an age when demand from that sort of awkward, angry character is declining.
His defence lawyer said that Wilson's lifestyle had altered dramatically since the offences three years ago.
I don't really agree with some of Cosby's reasoning or melodramatics, but his crux is excellent.
She makes writing a book sound like busywork ... the strain is as palpable as the voice is cute, and the drama is virtually nonexistent. Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert: Book summary
The playwright allows a predetermined narrative structure to quash the complexities that make Yamashita's case worthy of dramatization.
Not far away, and altogether more appealing, is the abandoned Portuguese city of Old Goa, now a dramatic collection of cathedrals and basilicas.
The dance sequences shift in tone and energy to suit both the music and the dramatic context.
His dramatic solos and stage hops also fired up the fans during "A Favor House Atlantic" and "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" -- both 2003 opuses that often sounded like Rush homages, with drummer Chris Pennie on the beat and everywhere else, and lyrics that only a CIA cryptanalyst or college-age C&C fan could decipher. Prog rockers Coheed and Cambria take on 9:30 club in Washington
Vicky Fox, a towering transwoman with yellow hair and brown skin, hurls herself dramatically onto the floor and begins contorting about on the weathered tile when I ask to take her picture. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
After a time teaching drama in borstals, prisons and community centres, he suffered two more breakdowns until one day, while sitting on a bus, his persistent angst, dread and fear of failure simply evaporated.
The past, the present and the future are enacted simultaneously and eternally in the perennial drama of the world.
Well, then, seriously, melodrama was the correct ticket and all that in 1840, but we've outgrown it; it's devilish demode to chuck things in people's faces. Lady Baltimore
The company made a dramatic entrance into the export market.
Reputations aside, looking the part has certainly been integral to this almost episodic drama, at least as it's unfolded in the media.
Liverpool's latest recruit Stig Inge Bjornbye is set for a dramatic debut next week after receiving a work permit.
‘It's meant to be’ jibes Danilo as he storms off the Westmorland Hall stage with such splendid melodrama he almost pushes conductor Wyn Davies into his illustrious players.
Had I access to a dram of poison, I would have greedily swallowed it.
That would be Robert Downey Jr., whose antisentimental charisma is the most dramatically definitive feature of Colorado Springs Independent
The building exploits the drama of this interlocked matrix of mass and light as stepped ramps zigzag through the atrium, revealing the sheer concrete wall and the great tottering stack of galleries.
The deal frenzy is being driven by a dramatic slide in crop prices in recent years. Times, Sunday Times
Don't be so dramatic!
It shall be like one of those period dramas, with guests conversing politely in the drawing room whilst Kate plonks away in the next room.
Many of the bays and inlets are simply beautiful and consist of rock or sand, sometimes dropping away dramatically into 50 feet of water, at other times sloping gently in to shallows of just a few feet.
Which neatly brings us to Humans, a new spooky drama about artificial intelligence. Times, Sunday Times
A dramatic improvement in health status is anticipated with life expectancy going beyond current forecasts.
He gave an animated jump of surprise when he saw me, laying a dramatic hand on his chest.
The Department of Conservation has taken a tough stance on noise pollution at Milford, and is proposing to dramatically limit the number of aircraft movements within the area.
And, like any good schoolteacher, she modulates her voice to great effect; during moments of particular drama, she is known for speaking to juries in a barely audible whisper.
For the paso doble, for example, it usually involves some variation on dramatic black and red. Dancing With the Stars Backstage Report: Kendra Goes Wild
One such is a professional actress and former drama teacher who directs for a hobby.
If something dramatic has happened during the day, we'll sit and natter about it.
I tend to like dramatic music with contrasts in tempo and instrumentation.
A mother and her 13-month old baby cheated death by moments thanks to a dramatic rescue from their burning home in Kendal.
I hope to develop a dramatic feature-length script about his life story as well.
I have a vague sense that dramaturgs may be a partial answer to the director capture problem, but I don't know enough about theatre to say.
I cannot imagine a successful staging of a piece with so much instrumental music and that has very little stageable drama to it.
Each mile that we progressed into Iraq, commanders warned us the risk of getting "slimed" dramatically increased. CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2007
Sales, filing and clerical work would be scaled back dramatically. Times, Sunday Times
The only way you'll be laughing at this romantic drama is at how preposterous the plot is. The Sun
Diphenhydramine, in a dosage of 25 to 50 mg three or four times daily, or hydroxyzine hydrochloride, in a dosage of 25 mg three or four times daily, provides an antipruritic effect.
Things have changed in many ways, but few things as dramatically or as insidiously as the manner in which we receive and process information. Judith Acosta: And Now, More About Me: The Sorry State Of The News Media
Kate Augusto, Danielle Capalbo and Nick Mendez report that Ayman Nour, a leading political dissident in Egypt, has decided to return to prison and finish his sentence in order to dramatize what he calls the Egyptian government's ongoing lack of respect for democratic values. Archive 2009-05-01
She has been acclaimed for the TV drama "Prime Suspect".
And no, a filmmaker doesn't need to resort to cheap tricks and melodrama to tell the story.
The vocal writing ranges between straightforward singing, Sprechstimme, and speech, depending on the dramatic role that the music must play.
Part of this may be cultural — Korean variety shows certainly display a pleasantly anything-goes aesthetic — but my sense is that merely singing in English semiotically signals a certain kind of Muzak quality within a dramatic context. Archive 2008-04-01
Every band's either got good vibrations or doomy melodrama.
The proliferation of diagnoses has contributed to a dramatic rise in antidepressant sales, which increased eightfold between 1990 and 2000.
DRAMA of the second half was a great contrast to the first. The Sun
In the newer radio drama, classical and real-world references are less overt but underpin the edifice. Times, Sunday Times
Drama is both a creative art form in its own right and an instrument of learning.
She had an audition for drama school.
In fact, these kinds of films need melodrama; they need action or events that externalise the emotions driving the story.
No drama of course except for the popping of the exhaust and the head-turning styling of the car.
In a recent interview, Lee recalled that Walter Kerr, then the drama critic for the Times, said "that 'First Breeze' was the first African-American play that invited him in to share in it.
Through play, children act out in miniature the dramas of adult life.
Some dresses feature freaky frilled hemlines, and striped suits were shown with dramatic hats that wouldn't have looked out of place at Ascot.
In the 1950s, a housing boom multiplied the timber industry's reliance on stumpage from public lands, and the agency enjoyed a dramatic boost in political prestige and congressional appropriations.
He had watched the drama unfold from a support vessel.
DiDonato took a broader and more dramatic perspective in two Rossini numbers, Desdemona's haunting "Willow Song" from "Otello" and a dazzlingly virtuosic encore of "Tanti affetti," the final showpiece from "La Donna del Lago. SFGate: Top News Stories
These included arts and crafts, swimming, knock out competitions, a trip to the cinema, drama, sports, bowling and a day trip out of town.
Hardwick acknowledges that moving from romantic comedy / relationship drama to the action genre is a departure for him.
Relatively new on the scene, laser rangefinders have improved dramatically in the few short years since they came on the market.
It was a dramatic transformation, from society hostess to Democratic Party power broker.
Moreover, by invoking Nahuatl and speaking in tongues, he dramatizes the opaque materiality of language.
Over the last thirty years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of dual language or two-way immersion programs.
Campaigners for tenants' rights say that the number of unscrupulous letting agents exploiting tenants and landlords with underhand tactics has risen dramatically over the past two years. Times, Sunday Times
They seem to know that in leaner and livelier form their courtroom dramas, geisha memoirs, and horse-whisperer romances would not be taken seriously, and that it is precisely the lack of genre-ish suspense that elevates them to the status of prize-worthy "tales of loss and redemption. A Reader's Manifesto
But more than simply a stiff costume drama in space suits, the miniseries is smart in both its telling and its look.
If the year has not yet given you your fill of American politics, you might be tempted by this drama about presidential hopefuls using dirty tricks. Times, Sunday Times
The newly-released quarterly figures highlighted a dramatic turnaround in the force's performance in tackling muggings and other violent hold-ups.
John produced the remains of a bottle of whisky and they all had a dram to celebrate.
Wilson depicted the struggles of African Americans with a lyrical beauty and captured the lives of those who lived on the edges of the society with a dignity that was worthy of the titanic power of any character in Greek drama.
Food prices and the costs of all imported goods will increase dramatically.
The London Market's fortunes continued to see-saw yesterday as the City digested yet another dramatic session.
One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses or oppresses, its reemergence dramatized, as in our nightmares, as an object of horror, a matter for terror, and the happy ending (when it exists) typically signifying the restoration of repression. January 2010
If you enjoy police dramas or murder mysteries, chances are you will enjoy this.
Over the years, however, such dramatic action proved to be the exception rather than the rule.
The ballade, full of dramatic intensity, mainly inspired by Polish epic poems, was a new musical form invented by Chopin. Chopin's 'Soul and Heart'
Because of the dramatic decline in the pilchard population in the Western Cape area, local fishing restrictions had previously been put into place in an attempt to increase the numbers of these fish. The Great Penguin Rescue
To Helen and back: At the star-studded The Night Before bash Saturday, Daniels confabbed with acting legend Helen Mirren, who starred in his 2005 drama Shadowboxer, which he directed. That's a wrap for Lee Daniels as countdown to Oscars ends
And although the concentrations found in rivers and estuaries are very small, studies show they dramatically alter the behaviour of fish. The Sun
The drama has been heavily trailered on the main channels, focusing on the shocking behaviour of one of the younger detectives, but there is more to it than that.
If they can make speech audible for the news, surely they can do it for drama. Times, Sunday Times
It's a bit ... overdramatic, isn't it? Times, Sunday Times
'Rubicon' -- AMC's march to quality TV continues drama on television this summer. Candidateblogs.baltimoresun.com Blogs - Baltimore Sun Candidate Blog
In the opening portion of the dance, Tuson and Olson dramatize a legend in which the wind is freed from its confinement by a bear.
It is as this dissonant crescendo of drama builds that the novel's cleverness reveals itself.
The small, plain-spoken drama teeters, undecidable, between lightness and weight. The Times Literary Supplement
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JUST two sweetened drinks a day can dramatically raise heart risk, studies show. The Sun
I refer to the far greater and more sweeping drama in which we are all caught up and which will profoundly affect our world view in the years ahead.
If you're a fan of the theatre, don't mind luvvies being luvvies and enjoy an elongated version of a Sunday night period melodrama, with an abundance of tomfoolery, then this should tickle your fancy.
What varies, and varies dramatically, is the conscious effort with which they are identified and undertaken.
But he clearly knew that this same reserve is full of dramatic potential. Times, Sunday Times
Putting years of training into learning how to apply hypnotic and meridian therapies is quite a dramatic departure for the father-of-three after running a regional building society for much of his life.
Dramatics seem to have been part of a student's life early in the history of the University, surprisingly, because attendance at the theatre was forbidden.
As the morning gives way to afternoon, the anemic, late-winter sun burns through, lifting the heavy mist and exposing the dramatic steep-sided canyon. A Nation Passing On the Port
That's just one apocryphal Bergman factoid (Webster's dates "dramaturg" back to 1870) that theater producer Andrew Higgie has collected over the half dozen years it has taken him to get the filmmaker's "Through a Glass Darkly" screenplay up and running as a stage play at London's Variety.com
The appearance is dramatic and bold, straddling the divide between classic and modern.
EVERY episode in the credit crunch has had its dramatic flourish.
I don't like drama in my house. I won't have it.
Her fall/winter collection features strong lines with a feminine twist: dramatic capes, dresses with surprising details, and formfitting suits in rich wines and inky blacks.
While Powell provided the drama, Lewis simply made history on the fifth day of the Olympic Trials.
Circumstances changed dramatically in about 1925 when the new microphones and triode valve amplifiers introduced a few years earlier for radio broadcasting came into use.
Spade in hand, with his head full of Roman castrametation and geometrical problems, a prince, scarce emerged from boyhood, presents himself on that stage where grizzled Mansfelds, drunken Hohenlos, and truculent Verdugos have been so long enacting, that artless military drama which consists of hard knocks and wholesale massacres. History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
In other words, a plot element should be deployed in a timely fashion and with proper dramatic emphasis.
The number of fatal accidents in the construction industry has dropped dramatically in recent years.
But there was further drama when the crane's brakes failed and it slid into the cab of the lorry.
There are no dramatics, no singed eyebrows, no binned masterpieces.
Death, he said, was the result of "syncope," or a dramatic drop in blood pressure. Portrait of a Killer
This undramatic recording by Opera Lafayette of Washington DC stems from a 2002 staging.
Love, danger, drugs, family, violence and tenderness power the drama.
However, like those who declared that the sky was falling in the 1980s, one cannot help feeling that Barnett has overdramatized the situation.
It takes a lot of calculating to sing a role as challenging as Butterfly, but in Naglestad's case the calculation was sometimes visible enough to dull the dramatic edge: a pause before a high note, a slightly too-deliberate leap into fortissimo in "Un bel di. Anne Midgette reviews Washington National Opera's 'Madama Butterfly'
The literature of the time provides ample evidence of a dramatic shift in public attitudes.
But the noose and lifeline metaphors dramatize the in-culture ‘factness’ of much writing, its consequentiality, rather than the seductive pleasures of its speculative realm.
They are actually callous and indifferent to the drama of life and death in the midst of which they find themselves. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
It's a staged drama in which accompanied singing has an essential function.
Nine months later - or two hours in TV drama time - she was back on the diving board, with her dreams revised and a doting dad holding the baby by the poolside, minutes after a snottery-nosed declaration that he and his gymslip mum were about to ruin each other's lives by staying together. The Daily Record - Home
He got involved in am-dram, but at 27 he decided that he either wanted to be a social worker or an actor.
I am nicknamed the ‘drama queen’ by my badminton friends, and funnily enough, I would have liked to become an actress
Period drama is increasingly seen worldwide to be the area of British television expertise.
However, subsequent independent surveys of actual ballots indicated a dramatic shift, with Mr Fujimori nearing a first-round victory.
The drama builds steadly toward a climax.
I still feel this way about a lot of books; I like either nonfiction or stories in blatantly fictional settings - but not the ones that are "realistic" dramas involving self-torturing individuals and their families. A sad day for bananafish
Several times during the speech Perry posed for dramatic effect, once even wrapping his arms around himself and remarking in a theatrical aside: "It's the darnedest thing. CPAC 2011: The Conservative Political Action Conference (Live Coverage, Day Two)
Payment of fees and grants Fees set by each drama school do differ slightly, though they can be considered basically similar.
Now, however, I feel that it is time for the interrobang to stage a dramatic return.
Vat and capital gains tax were increased dramatically. Times, Sunday Times
Hit dramas, reality shows and entertainment programmes are scarce commodities in the TV industry. Times, Sunday Times
His recuperative perception, in other words, is the substantive basis of a dramatic engagement.
The network earned its ratings by pushing boundaries – Miami Vice stylised the police drama, while Hill Street Blues gave it gritty realism. How the internet has all but destroyed the market for films, music and newspapers

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